Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27

YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
Thursday, January ~, 1857.
YALR,s PETITION RECoMMENDED.
The Committee ON Education at Hart
ford Vote TO Recommend the Pc
tttIOn of Yale University-What
Was Done Before the Labor
COmmittee-BiIIs of Importance In-
trOduced Yesterday-The County
COmmisIOners-Mr. Dunham NOmi-
mated.
HARTFORD, Jan. 26.
Special to the JOURNAL COURIER:
Speaker Hoyt is authority for the statement
that if members would present their petitions
with reasonable promptness and the commit
tees begin their work Immediately an ad-
journment sine die would be reached inside
of month; otherwise look out for May
session.
The labor committee began active business
to-day and the Judiciary, contested elections
and interpretations have already got down to
business. The rest of the committees are
rather slow in proceeding to business. The
bill file and the calendar appeared this morn
ing and their presentation 80 early in the ses-
for short session.
Nearly all the committee hearings bulle-
tined for to-day were postponed. Prof. Sim
con E. Baldwin, of New Haven, was about
the Capitol lobby this morning and appeared
before the committee on education in behalf
of the petition presented last week asking
for change in the charter of Yale UNIVERSE
ty so that any sums of money beqneathed to
Yale college, the fellows and members of the
Yale corporation, can be lawfully claimed by
the university. P4of. Baldwin gave an ex-
plicit explanation and after a short session
the committee voted to recommend the petit
ton to the legislature.
The labor committee held quite pro-
tracted session (their frst) this afternoon,
commencing Immediately after the House
adjournment The chairman of the meeting
was Senator Bates, the House chairman M.
Higgins of Greenwich, and the clerk Mr..
Latham of Windsor Locks Senate bill 10,
relating to weekly wages, was expected to
have been the frst bill discussed, but in
stead the bill relating to the retaining of
twenty per cent. of the employees wages and
paying the amount monthly and paying
weekly the other eighty per cent, came be-
fore the committee. Senator NJ F. Chap
man. who drew up the bill, was the first to
address the committee. After explaining
the different terms and clauses in the bill
Senator Chapman said: "There are many
manufacturers in the State who cannot af-
ford to pay the full amount of their helps
wages at the end of the week. The work
man, when he gets eighty per cent. of his
wages weekly, will then have sufficient
amount to live on during the month. For
instance, he can pay his rent with the
amount which has been kept back, and as
rents are generally collected monthly this is
another feature of commentator, and a
also is that the workingman and
his family might try and live
on this eighty per cent. and could then put
by the remaining twenty per cent. for a
rainy day. 1t would be paid monthly and
he could draw it and set it aside. 1t we are
to have weekly payment bills, and I most
heartily favor them, this eighty per cent. bill
will accomplish the needed result as near as
it can be accomplished. The last legislature
was pressed as none before have been by
labor and capital rivals. 1t is better form to
meet these issues squarely." Senator Chap
man was asked concerning the faotorizing
process. He said he believed it would be the
greatest blessing imaginable if people were
obliged to pay spot cash for their purchases.
E. F. Strong, first selectman and town
agent of Bridgeport, addressed the commit
tee for over thirty minutes. He agreed with
| Senator Chapman in detail and favored the
| bill. At the close of Mr.. Strong's remarks
| the chairman declared the hearing closed
there being no one else present to be heard
concerning the bill.
| 1t was announced that the bill from the
| Senate exempting wages from attachment
| would come before the committee for dis
| cussion to morrow afternoon.
A remonstrance was introduced in the
| Senate TO day from the First Congregations
| church and ecclesiastical society OF
Norwalk against the act to permit church
| organizations to be incorporated and accept
| the property of the society connected there
with. The remonstrance was referred to the
committee on interpretations. The grounds
of the remonstIance are that the Congrega-
tional church sis not hierarchy, but con-
sists of 297 separate and Independent eeclesi-
astical corporations" that none of them have
been notified of the pending law, and that NO
action be taken until they have had time to
pass upon it. The remonstrance caused no
little surprise and discussion. The opinion
in general is that it is not well taken, and
has little if any valid reason. The act which
the Norwalk church demonstrates against
was a general one asked for by the general
conferences of the Congregational churches
through the Rev. Drs. Walker and Parker.
The bill for the act came before the commit
tee on interpretations this afternoon, but lit
tie was done concerning it. It is not thought
the remonstrsnce will have any material eff
feet on the bill.
bill was introduced in the House to day
which, if it becomes a law, will tend to pre-
vent Pinkerton performances in Connecticut.
The bill provides that any corporation engag-
ing persons, not citizens of the State, for
the purpose of guarding its property, such
person or persons being armed with deadly
weapons, shall deposit with the town where
such corporation is located a bond of not less
than IS, 900 nor more than $40, 000, said bond
to be conditioned for the payment to any
person of all damages done in the employ
ment of aforesaid and in the case of death
to any person resulting from the employ
ment of such persons, then for the payment
to the legal representatives, of the deceased of
s., 600, while fine of not more than $40, 900
nor less than $5, 900 shall be imposed.
The caucus for the nomination of a county
commissioner to succeed Commissioner Dun
ham was held by the New Haven county Re-
publicans this afternoon Immediately after
the House adjourned. The caucus was a
lengthy one and perfectly harmonious. II
resulted as was expected. Dir. Durham, of
Seymour, was renominated as his own sue
cessor, and Mr.. Burleigh, of Hamden. was
also renominated to serve from July 1, 1883,
his appointment, however, to be contingent
upon the passage of the bill now before the
judiciary committee changing the terms of
county commissioners. Judges Hubbard and
Bartholomew of the borough court of Wal
lingford were reappointed.
Senator Walsh has the statute revision ready
and it will be presented tomorrow. There
have been numerous corrections made in the
printed copies. 1t was, perhaps, natural to
expect that there would be such changes
| after the revision had come from the hands
| of expert lawyers.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.